New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-17
ABOUT YACHTS and THEIR OWNERS

MANY REPAIRS AND MUCH NEW WORK GOING ON
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Lieutenant Hem has already begun 10 cast ABOUT TOE
races for tho Gaatea He proposes TO enter nor In
principal regatas this and Will Try pesloes 70
make o few matches with some OF the myers. no 'aa
yesterday that his challenge to any American snso
stcker for a race around Bermuda was sui open' anu
furthermore IL any American sloop goes TO
Great Britain and brings back the Cape May ana
Reef cups won by the rex that he will challenge her ~
John E. Brooks has sold the schooner heso-
Lutte to Mr. Postey who mas he'o'
hitherto been identified with yachting Her nun, "hoi
was built sixteen years ago, was examined recently anu
found to be perfectly sound Her bow is to be engtn
enen and she is to have rigging and nc" SUM- "a
sails
Chester W. Chapins schooner julia which recently re-
turned from q months cruise among the Bananas'
is being everhaued and provided with racing rig at
Harlan & Hollngswortb's Wilmington yard she VIII
have longer masts, and Dowsprit and considera
bly, larger spread OF Her owner belieVes ha'
sbo ia able to show her stern to
and n Is said that he has arranged brush WIN uo
The mast of C. O. Iselins new second-cass so0p.
the Ttania will DO stepped early tnis Tecn r To
main boom which sixtynne long is black spruce
The big schOoners Norseman ana Montauh nsso M M
season at TeSos Basin The Nopscnan will start for
the South France, where Ogden Goeiet her o"noi'
! .tao
The schooner Atlanta and Commodore Gerrys steamer
the Electra also being overhaued Inc a.ao o th
go into commission about May To- imnedia'e' "p"" '-0
return OF her owner IRON Europe A., ...u,.rt +ha
popular builder is authority for the d
two new schooners about the size or the CorohSt
the other larger than the Ambassadors VIII DC vu III"
He refused to give details ans a. se is to
heightened again. Last year rev Ieet "oo ht seet
her stern and now her bow to be carried ouI she
This entails longer masts and new suit VI sas ouo 10
III p Kinssland is expected home from Florida ne H
! nia he
West Haven last summer, will then be put In com"'
The Aivas new yards aud Blooms now in position
and Philip t. Lows rggers finished selzhg e ns
eay 0n nsr ne big looks much
than when she started on her Southern trlp a.. p,s
Captain Cooley and portion OF the crew OF tne f caS
ella have gone to Wilmington TO ht Commodore oan
fields boat out for her seasons work Her nc" ma''
W. p Donglsss sloop the Arrow. which was laid up
last year. Is being got ready 70 golhto comii'so" "
Greenpurt She Is in the market 1,, In. .o,d
the cutter Mona W. Butler Duncan, Jr OF tne
ns yau ~ cytnsra for Norfolk and will go there
Bermuda lie is in search OF health ana Is not Aei'
fesr hapma r ' Of the Fleetwng T. Ielin Of the
Cinderella and J. Murray Mitchell have Deen eieo'''
William B Row who recently purchased the cutte
Yolande from C. A. Stevenson, is lifting her out ana VIII
h S. ne ng.b crew Of T. ~ Padeords cutter, Ulida
have sailed from Liverpool and Will reach thi' po'' e
r. T. Bush has received offers for the Coronet ye,
but fondly hopes that some Engishnan win more '
than good judgment will give a3OOoO Tor her ~, nan
j. n Winslow VINO crossed in the CoT0net as tno iep
resentaye OF Captain Colt, and also as newspaper e
porter, returned in the White Star steamship Di'""
/ yesterday -, . =, I'D. nov
| j. Rogers Maxwell watches the progress OF MS nev
sloop the shamrock. with great interest ana lnHo
dav trim 70 Johu MImms yard where she Is being ouilt
Her deck is now and work will be begun al once VI
| her interior - 49,, ,...o,,or. n,
| Commo,ore James ID. Smith thinks the alterations ~
has made I'm the Focahontas will eDtite her 10 tecoSn
ton from uch secont-class wonders as inc ni ~
Fanny Bedouin Titania and Shamrock she VIII ma,
seven tons of lead In her keel All her deck worA WI"